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νύμφευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύμφευμα νύμφευματος

Structure: νυμφευματ (Stem)

Etym.: numfeu/w

Sense

  1. marriage, espousal
  2. the person married, match

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἕπου δέ μοι πρὸσ ναῦσ, καλὸν νύμφευμα τῷ στρατηλάτῃ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:19)
  • ἔστιν δ’ Ἄρεώσ τισ ὄχθοσ, οὗ πρῶτον θεοὶ ἕζοντ’ ἐπὶ ψήφοισιν αἵματοσ πέρι, Ἁλιρρόθιον ὅτ’ ἔκταν’ ὠμόφρων Ἄρησ, μῆνιν θυγατρὸσ ἀνοσίων νυμφευμάτων, πόντου κρέοντοσ παῖδ’, ἵν’ εὐσεβεστάτη ψῆφοσ βεβαία τ’ ἐστὶν ἔκ τε τοῦ θεοῖσ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 2:6)
  • ‐ δεξιάν τ’ ἐμῇ χερὶ σύναψον, ἀρχὴν μακαρίαν νυμφευμάτων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 1:2)
  • Κρέων δ’ ἐοίκε τῶν ἐμῶν νυμφευμάτων τῶν τ’ Οἰδίπου δύστηνοσ ἀπολαῦσαι κακῶν, παιδὸσ στερηθείσ, τῇ πόλει μὲν εὐτυχῶσ, ἰδίᾳ δὲ λυπρῶσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 13:3)
  • σὺ δ’ εἰσ τὰ μητρὸσ μὴ φοβοῦ νυμφεύματα· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. marriage

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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